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Irene Rice Pereira

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Irene Rice Pereira (1902 - 1971) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Spain.  Irene Pereira is known for Right angle geometric and modernist figure painting.

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 Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.

She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.

In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more int   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10099 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Irene Rice Pereira

   Publications  Book References:  98
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Irene Rice Pereira
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction American Modernisms October 1995 Berman, Avis Yes
ARTnews Reviews March 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review The Yasuna Collection August 1994 Vevers, Tony Yes
98 Book References for Irene Rice Pereira
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Morgan, Ann Lee The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Bearor, Karen A Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work Embarking on an Eastward Journey
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1994 Provincetwon Art Association and Museum Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1993 Bearor, Karen A Irene Rice Pereira Her Paintings and Philosophy 324 No
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Williams, William James A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art 256 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Andrew Crispo Gallery I Rice Pereira
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1963 Lipman, Jean (editor) What Is American in American Art 180 Yes
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1960 Read, Herbert Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting 326 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Baur, John I H New Art in America 279 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1956 Arizona State College Arizona State College Collection American Art 108 No
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Breeskin, Adelyn D 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art 93 No
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1954 Pearson, Ralph M Modern Renaissance in American Art 300 No
1953 Baur, John I H Loren MacIver/I Rice Pereira
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1946 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Fourteen Americans
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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